Investigating the Relationship between Students' Personality Traits and Their Enthusiasm for Entrepreneurship and Starting a Small Business: Case Study

Subject Areas : Behavioral Studies in Management

Mansour Torkiantabar ¹ , Farzad Asayesh ² , Tooran Bagheri ³

1 - Assistant Professor,Department of Management, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor,Department of Business Management , Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran(Corresponding Author) [e-mail]
3 - Ph.D. Knowledge and Information Science, Management and Planning Organization of Kermanshah, Razi University Visiting Professor, Kermanshah, Iran

Received: 2022-08-18 Accepted : 2022-08-18 Published : 2011-09-23

Keywords: Personality traits, Students, entrepreneurship, small businesses,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between students' personality traits and their desire for entrepreneurship and starting small businesses from the perspective of students of Islamic Azad University, Doroud Branch in a descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study includes 425 undergraduate male students of this university unit. The sample size was determined based on Cochran's formula of 202 people. The standard questionnaire for measuring five personality traits (NEO) was used to collect the required data for the research and a researcher-made questionnaire was used to measure the desire for entrepreneurship and starting a small business. After collecting the questionnaires, the collected data were classified and analyzed using SPSS24 statistical software. Due to the normal distribution of data; Pearson test was used to test the research hypotheses. The results of this study showed that there is a relationship between personality traits of male students of Islamic Azad University, Dorud Branch and their desire for entrepreneurship and starting small businesses. The results of this study also showed that there is a positive relationship between extraversion, desire for new experiences, agreement and conscientiousness of students with their desire for entrepreneurship and starting a small business, but this relationship was negative for the neuroticism variable.

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